Stats - Bumrah tops spin pack as Bazball falters in a chase for the third time
At Visakhapatnam, 1196 runs were scored but the best partnership was of 90 runs - not a record, but almost there
Sampath Bandarupalli
05-Feb-2024
Jasprit Bumrah has three better returns in the series than any India spinner so far • BCCI
8-3 - England's win-loss record in fourth-innings chases since Brendon McCullum became the coach in May 2022. Prior to the Visakhapatnam Test, they had lost by one run to New Zealand and by 43 runs to Australia, both last year.
292 - England's total in the fourth innings was the second-highest for any team against India in India. Sri Lanka's 299 for 5 in Delhi in 2017 is still the highest.
97 - Test wickets for R Ashwin against England, the most by an Indian. The three wickets on Monday took him past BS Chandrasekhar's tally of 95.
4 - Instances of India losing the first Test match of a home Test series since 2010. Each time, however, they have bounced back to win the second Tests: vs South Africa in 2010, vs Australia in 2017, and vs England in 2021.
10.11 - Jasprit Bumrah's bowling average in the second Test against England, the second-best for an India pace bowler while taking nine or more wickets in a home Test. Ishant Sharma averaged 8.66 against Bangladesh in 2019 in Kolkata, where he took nine wickets for only 78 runs.
The Visakhapatnam Test was the fourth time Bumrah took eight or more wickets in a Test for fewer than 100 runs. Only Ashwin (seven) has more such hauls than Bumrah among India bowlers.
0 - After two Tests, no India spinner has a four-wicket haul. The best in these two Tests so far is Ashwin's 3 for 68 in the first innings in Hyderabad. Bumrah alone has three better returns than that: 4-41 in the second innings in Hyderabad, and 6-45 and 3-46 in Visakhapatnam.
1196 - Totals runs scored in Visakhapatnam, the third-highest in a Test match without a century stand. The 90-run third-wicket partnership between Yashasvi Jaiswal and Shreyas Iyer in India's first innings was the highest across the four innings.
The 1993 Ashes Test at The Oval had 1225 runs scored with a highest stand of 88 runs, while the Pallekele Test between Sri Lanka and England in 2018 had 1215 runs with 96 the highest stand.
1996 - The last instance of two batters aged below 25 scoring hundreds for India in a Test match was Sourav Ganguly and Sachin Tendulkar against England in the 1996 Trent Bridge Test. Jaiswal (209 in the first innings) and Shubman Gill (104) did it in Visakhapatnam.
Sampath Bandarupalli is a statistician at ESPNcricinfo